Goatwhore is that scuzzy childhood friend. He's a little predictable, and sure, maybe he's the type of person who would put his own mother in a chokehold for a klondike bar, but he's dependable. In need of a thorough shower or not, he always knows how to show you a good time.

Only listened to it a couple of times so far, but all in all good. There's some melody but still a lot of fast thrashy/punky riffs. Definitely one of the bands I'm always excited to hear new music by. Digging it.

This is basically another Blood For The Master, and I'm perfectly fine with that. Riffs are glorious, vocals are scathing, and there are some positively insane moments on some of the songs. FBS is probably a favorite of mine, too. Hoorah, Goatwhore.

Holy smokes this is great! All the way through. It reminds me a bit of Skeletonwitch's best hooks and riffs but with more power! Not to take anything away from Skeletonwitch though.
Favorite songs, Baring Teeth For Revolt and Schadenfreude.

Didn't really like it, sorry. The drums are great and there's some nice riffs here and there, but there's also lots of really tired and recycled sounding ones too and the songs get a bit bland. My main problem though is the weak sounding guitars that lack bite and the really unpleasant vocal style. I can't profess to have ever been into that band that much but I'm sure A Haunting Curse was a lot meaner and grittier than this.

Not hearing much death metal here though. This sounds more like blackened speed / thrash metal with a bit of punk, or something, with a bit of chug at points.

Written by !J.O.O.E.! on 14.07.2014 at 23:03This sounds more like blackened speed / thrash metal with a bit of punk, or something, with a bit of chug at points.

I think that's always been Goatwhore's style to be honest. I never really lumped them in with the death metal crowd, although I suppose their back catalog was a little more death-influenced. Since 200...6? or so I think their direction has been more of a blackened punk/thrash thing.

I think that's always been Goatwhore's style to be honest. I never really lumped them in with the death metal crowd, although I suppose their back catalog was a little more death-influenced. Since 200...6? or so I think their direction has been more of a blackened punk/thrash thing.

Yup, I reported that on the mistakes forum a while back. There's definitely a significant amount of thrash in their style.

I've had their first 3 albums for some years now (they were in a buddy's collection whom I let borrow my EHD to back up his collection when we were brief roomies), but I never really could make it past Funeral Dirge, they just never really engaged me. But this has got me quite engaged. Making me want to acquire the albums I don't already have so I can go through their whole discography and see if I'll look any of their other albums (I haven't tried to listen to those first 3 in some years, so it could just be that my tastes have evolved to a point that I will appreciate them more now :shrug:).